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To grow or to buy : food staples and cultural identity in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes

Creator:: Karnes, Daniel A.
Abstract:: In this era of free trade and globalization, food is traveling greater and greater distances to its consumers. This is causing small farms and small farmers all over the world to protest as their livelihood is being undercut by cheap agricultural commodities from outside their communities. In the Ecuadorian Andes,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Version…………………………………123 Appendix C – Document on TUCAYTA………………………………..……………..124

A comparative study of Chinese and American youth culture

Creator:: Luo, Laiou
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to explore American and Chinese college student underlying cultural assumptions, which influence their perceptions and behaviors in various domains of life. The objectives of this study were to: (a) To generate timely knowledge of Chinese and American youth's cultural images, meanings, and frame of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: population samples. (c) To increase the cross-cultural awareness of both cultural groups and offer deeper

Hybrid healthscapes : mothers' health care and food practices in the Ecuadorian Andes

Creator:: Hammer, Michaela
Abstract:: After decades of expert-based modernization efforts that have had profound negative impacts on human and environmental health, Ecuador is currently pursuing a rights-based, participatory development paradigm known as sumak kawsay or "the good life". Despite its promises of inclusion and interculturality, this approach continues to rely on highly trained specialists,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Reclaiming space for small scale agriculture in Lincoln County, Oregon

Creator:: Gossen, Kimberly A.
Abstract:: As recent interest has grown in the connections between how food is produced, distributed and consumed, and the overall health of food systems for people and the environment, a movement toward localizing food systems has emerged. In Lincoln County, Oregon, citizens, restaurateurs and university extension faculty, among others, have started...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ……………………………130 APPENDIX C: RESTAURANT INTERVIEW GUIDE……………..………131 APPENDIX D: MAP OF LINCOLN COUNTY

“Gold Dirt:” An Exploratory Study of Beginner Women Farmers’ Experiences with Farmland Tenure Mediating Care for Soil in Willamette Valley, Oregon

Creator:: Christophel Michaels, Rosa J.
Abstract:: This thesis investigates how beginning, women farmers, within in a women farmers’ network in the Willamette Valley, Oregon are accessing land and farming information. Using ethnographic, community-based research methods, I ask how land access mediates their ability to care for their land and soil. Are these farmers interested in fostering...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Cosmovisions and Farming : An Investigation of Conventional and Alternative Farmers' Environmental Values along the Willamette River

Creator:: French, Melissa M.
Abstract:: Understanding which factors motivate farmers to adopt certain practices is an important part of helping to solve many agri-environmental issues. This study uses 19 interviews with farmers along Oregon’s Willamette River, a statewide producer survey, and select interviews with organizations and agencies active in the farming community to examine the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The role of radical action in the animal rights movement

Creator:: Pettinen, Katja
Abstract:: Past research has categorized animal rights groups into three main categories; conservative, moderate, and radical. While a few studies exist on the animal rights movement as a whole, none have focused specifically on the radical groups. This research project uses an ethnography of communication approach to examine how language constructs...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ) Terms that are meaningful for the activists themselves (em/c perspective). 3) Finally, terms that are

Opposing worldviews : Cuicatec values of cultural and natural resources in a western paradigm

Creator:: Hearn, Kyle P.
Abstract:: Both conflicts and new identities result when indigenous' traditional values of landscape and resource management are superimposed with federal governments' management of archaeological and forest resources in federally designated protected areas. This thesis examines the relationship and discourse between two Cuicatec towns in Oaxaca, Mexico and three Mexican government agencies...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Using computers for reversing language shift : ethical and pragmatic implications from a Wasco case study

Creator:: Denis, Armelle
Abstract:: Indigenous languages worldwide are rapidly disappearing, forced out of use by the spread of dominant Western culture and its languages. On the Warm Springs reservation of Oregon, the Culture and Heritage department, the tribal agency in charge of language preservation, is offering instruction in all three languages of the reservation:...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 84 languages of class C are only spoken by the grandparent generation and up; they have a life

The Federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) in relation to higher education students and their eligibility for the program

Creator:: Stone, Vesna Grace
Abstract:: Food insecurity is a widely researched global public health issue, but students in higher education are frequently omitted from the data and are not widely recognized as a population that faces hunger. This thesis explores the college student population in relation to food insecurity and, in particular, their attempt to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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To grow or to buy : food staples and cultural identity in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes

A comparative study of Chinese and American youth culture

Hybrid healthscapes : mothers' health care and food practices in the Ecuadorian Andes

Reclaiming space for small scale agriculture in Lincoln County, Oregon

“Gold Dirt:” An Exploratory Study of Beginner Women Farmers’ Experiences with Farmland Tenure Mediating Care for Soil in Willamette Valley, Oregon

Cosmovisions and Farming : An Investigation of Conventional and Alternative Farmers' Environmental Values along the Willamette River

The role of radical action in the animal rights movement

Opposing worldviews : Cuicatec values of cultural and natural resources in a western paradigm

Using computers for reversing language shift : ethical and pragmatic implications from a Wasco case study

The Federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) in relation to higher education students and their eligibility for the program

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